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Starlink appear to be jammed too

Wouldn't you just be able to shield the antenna to only point up? I think that is how some aircraft stay protected from GPS jamming/spoofing, and I assume you can do something similar.

The satellite still needs to be able to receive the signal from the terminal. If the Iranian Government sets up transmitters that send up Noise at the satellites, the satellite isn't going to be able to receive the low power transmissions from the terminal if the jammer is close enough to the terminal.

It depends on the Jamming power and the satellite beamforming how close you would have to be to jam it.

This is not the case for GPS because GPS is receive-only and the satellite doesn't listen for user transmissions (although you could still try to jam the control uplink to prevent synchronization which would decrease accuracy over a few days, but then you would have to be close to the GPS control stations and you'll probably get arrested soon)


I did not consider that direction of communication! Seems much easier to locate and send nonsense to satellites than to land-based terminals.

I would guess that someone is beaming a whole lot of wideband power at the satellites themselves, to overload the input receivers.

Thank you! I now realize that my analogy was misplaced due to how Starlink is bidirectional and GPS is unidirectional.


ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.


They haven't given me my monolith, so no contract established


Military Radar and Sonar


iPlayer on TV (across all platforms) is a generic web application, topped with a custom wrapper app (think webview) for each platform, responsible to hook platform’s native APIs to Web/JS APIs.

I’m guessing there are some complications hooking Apple TV’s native subtitles APIs to relevant web APIs, and low usage statistics doesn’t help prioritising fixing the issue. Although the rumour is that they are working on a completely new Apple TV app.


For most platforms this is true, but not Apple TV. I don't think they even allow it. iPlayer is definitely native code.


I think Apple must allow it, either that or Google have tried really hard to capture in native code the "shitty non-native web app" feel with the YouTube app. But the iPlayer app does feel fairly native.


HarfBuzz is maintained by Behdad Eafahbod who _used_ to work in Google and Facebook.


Doesn't matter who maintains it. It matters who owns copyrights.


That doesn't matter, since it's FLOSS with an irrevocable licence. That's the great thing about free software.


That wasn't the point. Yes, you're free to use it. But many of us would like not to depend on Google code.



Let’s not forget that Iran had and possibly still have undeclared nuclear facilities

https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-u-n-inspectors-find-radioa...



Well yes, I can read that, but as I recall the controversial quote all those years ago was a bit more subtle


Iran very much need the money. Iran will show patience as long as it's needed to unblock the money they have in foreign banks.

Once that's done, they'll use that money to make more missiles and arm the militia in middle east.


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